[gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Brian Harring posted on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:17:35 -0700 as excerpted:

> Basically what gain is there?  Stabilizing it at this point comes off as
> "whee, we have py3k stabilized!  Now go mask it on all of your boxes
> since not a lot of the useful things play nice with it right now!"

I'm on ~arch, so dealt with it already, doing pretty much exactly that.  
Nothing I have installed uses py3k yet, and there's really no reason I 
need it installed, so I have it locally masked.

At some point, various packages will begin to depend on it, and when they 
need stabilizing, we'll need py3k stabilized as well.  But meanwhile, as 
long as it itself is working well, we can use the time until then to 
smooth the transition when that day arrives, arranging for modules to 
install in multiple slots, etc.

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